Al Qaeda's attack plan in Yemen foiled

Yemen has thwarted an Al Qaeda plot to attack vital installations in a province that is home to much of the country's oil resources and a key pipeline that ferries crude to the coast, the defence ministry said yesterday.

The ministry's online newspaper said security forces had destroyed an Al Qaeda hideout in the Maarib province and foiled a "plot on the verge of implementation to target economic and government installations and army camps". It did not say what installations were being targeted. Yemen has been a major Western security concern since a Yemen-based Al Qaeda wing claimed responsibility for a failed December attempt to bomb a US-bound plane.

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